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A Mammoth Pie.

In honor of the queens jubilee at
Derby Dale, England, mammoth pie
was baked, which is said to be without
equal in the annals of pie making. The
baking took place in special oven,
and the pie was 8 feet in diameter,
and two feet deep, and contained GA
stones of flour, 1850 pounds of beef,
1SO pounds OF mutton, 16O pounds OF
veal, $50 pounds of lamb, 25O pounds
of pork, 12O pounds of lard, so pounds
of butter, 80 couples of rabbits, 3 hares,
AZ fowls, 40 pigeons, IL grouse, 21
ducks, 4 plovers, l turkey, 5 geese,
and 100 small birds, together with SO
eggs and so stones of potatoes, 40
pounds of dripping. The pie weighed
about two tons, five or six cwt. In the
morning it was taken on stone cart,
drawn by ten horses, to field called
Norman Park. Directly the pie had
been taken under one end of the tent
in which it was to be served to the
people, the strong wooden barriers
against which the crowd pressed gave
way, and surging multitudes rushed
into the tent up to the stone cart, and
there ensued scene of great con-
fusion. In vain were the people ap-
pealed to. The stronger the appeal
the more they rushed into the tent
and the crust rapidly disappeared, be-
ing either given or forcibly taken away
and it was not until a promise had
been made that when the old people
and children had been served the pie
should be brought into the field and
distributed, that the hungry mob
would be appeased.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-12-02
Dining Car Line to the Pacific Ocean.

The Northern Pacific Railroad, the
only one of the transcontinental lines
running dining cars through to the
Pacific coast, announced new time
schedule taking effect Nov. 90, 1887.
The principal features of this new
schedule are:
First. Twelve hours quicker time
from st. Paul to Helena and Butte,
Montana, and twenty-four hours short
er time to Portland, Ore, Tacoma, w.
T., and all North Pacific coast points,
by the limited express leaving St.
Paul at p. NJ. daily. The time of No.
2. the corresponding train east bound,
will be shortened seventeen hours.
Second. An additional through ex-
press train, to which will be attached
Pullman sleepers, dining cars and en-
igrant sleepers, leaving st. Paul at
8. p. NJ. daily, for Helena, Butte, Mis-
soula, Spokane Falls and Eastern
Washington points; this train making
the through time five hours quicker
than the former Pacific coast express,
giving the intended Pacific coast set
tier fourteen hours quicker time than
heretofore.
Third. Three express trains daily
from st. Paul and Minneapolis to
Moorhead, Mimi, Fargo and James
town, d. T., with through Pullman
sleepers to Grand Forks, Fergus Falls,
Wahpeton and principal points in
North Dakota.
The Northern Pacific not only offers
to the travelling public the best train
service, including the famous cars,
Pullman palace drawing room and
sleeping cars, emigrant sleepers and
splendid day coaches, but from
Chicago and all Eastern cities to
Portland, Ore, as quick time as by
any other route, while to Butte and
Helena, Mont, it is the shortest line
by one hundred and sixty-six miles
respectively, actually saving the travel
er to Butte six hours, and to Helena,
eighteen hours, as against any other
line.
The great reduction in time will be
of particular interest to all classes of
travel, especially Yellowstone Park
and Pacific coast excursionists, con-
templating return trip by the all
rail line-the "Mt. Shasta" route-be-
tween San Francisco and Portland,
and a trip along the Columbia river
and over the famous Cascade noun
tains via the Northern Pacific.
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PULLMAN porters are exceedingly 81

PULLMAN pOrters Are exceedingly su-
perstitious. They always want to
know the antecedent of a coach be-
fore they go aboard of it, and if it has
not had luck they are loath to take
passage. The new sleepers that come
out are carefully kept track of, and
every wool-headed son of Ham in
George Pullman's employ has list in
his possession of coaches which he
firmly believes to be hoo-dooded. They
have been battered, or jammed, or had
i'll luck of one sort or another. The
green travel ON these. If an old hand
must board them he is in mortal ter
ror, jumps at every groan or creak,
turns pale when the whistle blows,
and sits with his head in his hands
when he's nothing else to do.
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Lumber Industry.

The following interesting facts we
extract from Il paper in Harpers' Week
ly on "The Lumber Industry of the
Northwest"
The pine lumber product of Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota in 1886
was, in round numbers, 7OO0,OOO,OOO
feet. To obtain the lumber the pine
timber was logged clean from 7SO
square miles of forest. The live pine
still standing in these three States is
estimated at 100000 600, 900 feet, worth
36O,OOO,OOO now. In twenty years
the half or more, will have been cut,
but the remainder will be worth half a
billion dollars. On the Saginaw river
within distance of twenty-five miles
from its mouth has been for many years
the greatest pine-producing district in
the world. But it reached the zenith
in 1882, and with fluctuations depend
ent upon circumstances it must de-
cline until at length the last pine log
OF the Saginaw has been interviewed,
and the record closed forever. Since
1851, the Saginaw mills have produced
1874 4,S1S,937 feet OF pine lumber
Since 1867 the Saginaw mills have
manufactured 14,132 ,O5917O pine
shingles ,56s, ,437 ,26S pine lath since
1882, for packing salt, 219,525,994
pine slaves, and II, 4,691 $40 sets of pine
heading. The shingles, slaves, and
headings are all manufactured from
logs that will not make merchantable
lumber. Many trees have good and
bad spots SO close together that clear
board could not possibly be cut from
them, and yet by cutting each timber
into bolts eighteen inches or three feet
long, great deal Of excellent stock is
secured, which would otherwise be lost,
and pine is too valuable now to waste.
After all is selected that can be used
as pine, the refuse-sawdust, bark,
edgings. spalts, and worthless slabs is
used as fuel. 1t could not be thrown
into the river and must be burned. 1t
is burnt under boilers, and generates
steam enough to manufacture on this
same Saginaw river, over 100000
barrels of salt annually. In 1886 the
Saginaw district produced 79S, $780,
224 feet of pine lumber. Of this
amount $50. 100000 feet OF logs came
down in "the drive" of the several
streams tributary. The Lit.abawassee
Boom Company RATED Up and de-
livered at the mills booms 403, 1888, ,74O
feet of logs, or 1868 ,4O3 pieces-an
average of l2O feet per log. Fifteen
years ago the average was 800 feet per
log, and in the winter OF 1872 about
80 100000 feet came through the
Huron booms that averaged 500 feet
per log. Ten years ago pine stick
scaling 120 feet was left to rot or burn,
or be stolen for fence pole by some
audacious pioneer. To-day one can
see great many so-called clogs" in
the boom that scale from 40 to 80
feet per pole. This fact tells the
whole story of the growing scarcity
and value of Michigan pine. The
logs handled by the Littabwassee
Boom Company last year, if made up
into one raft of single log depth, would
form a contiguous mass $50 feet wide
and 100 miles long.
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timber from the public lands, and
had no right whatever to take timber
from public lands for the construction
OF other railroads.
The court also held that the COM
pany had a right to take cord-wood
for fuel for locomotives used in con-
structiCn work on the road.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-12-02

In the new ferry-boat launched at
San Francisco last week, Puget Sound
fir comprised the largest part OF the
material for her construction, 5OO,OO
feet of this wood being used. She
will cost 100000, about $4,000 OF
which has been paid out for labor.
This shows the value of ship-building
as a branch of manufacture for which
Puget Sound possesses the most re-
markable facilities OF any port OF the
United States.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-12-02

THE officers of the Custom House
in San Francisco report that the busi-
ness now being transacted at that in
stitution exceeds that of any former
period.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-12-02

The value of imports of foreign
merchandise by sea and rail at San
Francisco in October is $3,S75, ,975, q
total OF $35, ,219,625 since January LIST,
1887.
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Address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
New Orleans. La,

RI NJ MRfn That the presence of Generals
are In charge Of the drawings, is : euarsntee Of
absolute fairness and integrity that the chance
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what number will draw Prize.
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s,gned oy the President of our institution.
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THE next House Of Representatives
will consist of 16S Democrats, 154 Re-
publicans and four Independents.
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Unprecedented ATTRACTION !
y Over a Million Distributed.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $500, 900.
[ [n{S Il
Louisiana State Lottery Company

Incorporated by the Legislature in 1868, for
Educational and Charitable purposes, and its
franchise made part of the present State Con-
stitution, in 1879, by an overwhelming popular
vote.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings
take place monthly, and the Grand Semi.
Annual Drawings regularly every six
months (June and Decembcr).
I" We do hereby certify that zee supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi
Annual Dra,cings Of the Louisiana State Lot
terry Company and in person manage and con-
trothe D'a,cingS themselves and that the same
are conducted scih honesty, fairness and in good
faith totcdrds all parties, and zoe authorize the
company to use this certificate, ,cih fac
simites Of our signatures attached, IN its adrer-
tiSementS."
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the Republic fame, is fraudulently on
the Pension rolls, and an investiga-
ton of the matter is now in progress.
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The Standard theater, Seattle is to
be turned into q w. C. T. I. reading
room.
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-18

The little Monitor followed in her wake,
and when tho Merrimac turned her iron beak
forward, there was the cheese box directly
between her and the Minnesota. The stern
guns of the Minnesota opened on the ram,
but she was invulnerable. IL her sides had
been perpendicular, some of the fifty great
shots which struck her from Capt. Van
Brunt's guns on the Minnesota, must have
penetrated her.
AS the ram approached, the little Mont
tors turret guns began to revolve and fire.
The ram answered with q tremendous broad
side. One conical shot from tho huge Arm
strong gun penetrated the Monitors turret
part way, but the bolt broke off and re-
NAMED sticking between the bars of railroad
iron, bent and flattened. The relic is still
preserved. Other shot from the ram flew
around and over the Monitor without effect.
The little raft steamed around and around
her ponderous foe, seeking point of attack.
But there was none. They pounded at each
other tremendously, neither hurting tho
other
The Merrimac, finding she had made no inn
preston on the Monitor, turned her guns once
more upon the Merrimac and made a savage
attack, which told terribly. AT that moment
tho little Monitor steamed up and placed hcr-
self between the ram and the Minnesota. The
Merrimac changed her position and once moro
the big ram and the little turret ship grappled.
The Merrimac grounded and the Mime
sofa trained her guns directly upon her.
She got ahoat and turned towards Norfolk,
the Monitor after her.
Suddenly the Merrimac turned like an ami
NAL maddened and headed with all her force
directly at the Monitor, seeking to run her
down. The iron beak grated over the level
deck, and the little raft came up serenely
ready for fight again. The Merrimac was
more damaged than her antagonist. One
heavy shot penetrated the armor of the ram.
There was more maneuvering and more can
nonading at close quarters, when suddenly
the firing ceased.
The Merrimac and her attendant fleet
headed up the bay. At tho same time the
Monitor turned and steamed down tho bay
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-18

On the other hand, tho thistle family
are far more truly rural and agricul-
tural in their habits, being dcnizens of
the open fields and meadows, less de-
pendent than the nettles upon richness
of soil. and readily accommodating
themselves TO all vacant situations.
Hence they have only felt the need of
arming themselves in rough-and-
ready prickly fashion against the prob
able assaults of their NATURAL enemies.
They have forged darts. but nave not
learned to poison them. Their prickly
leaves and wings are amply sufficient
for defense. without the necessity for
developing virulent juice to be in
jected into tho very veins of their saw
age aggressors. Natural selection can
never push any special line of evolution
further than is imperatively called for
by the wants and circumstances of the
particular species. 1t always necessuri-
ly leaves off just at the point where the
protection afforded is fully sufficient to
guard the kind from the possibility of
extinction. The thistlcs have found in
actual practice that prickles alone are
quite enough to secure their boosted
immunity from extraneous attacks; the
nettles have practically discovered for
themselves that without stings they
would soon be landed in the final limbo
of utter nonentity. -Jf,. Grant Allen, IL,
PODhtnr Science WOnthiU.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-18
Mortgage Sale.

Defanlt having been made in the condi-
lions OF u certain mortgage, executed by
Willard o. Warner and Waty A. Warner, hts
wife, to Mary +. Finch, on the twenty eighth
recorded. on the third day of January, A. II
1883, in the Office of the Register of Deeds
of the county of Shiawassee and State of
Michigan, in Liber % of Mortgages on pages
1874 and 395, on which mortgage there is
claimed to be due at this date for principal
and interest the sum of two hundred, seven
ty-two and $1,000 dollars and an attorney fee
OF twenty.fv dollars in addition to all other
legal costs as provided for in said mortgage
as often rs any proceeding is taken to fore
close the same; and whereas no proceedings
in law or In equity have been taken to re-
cover said debt or any part thereofsecured by
said mortgage,
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that
by virtue of the power of sale contained i'll
said mortgage on the 9TH day of March, A.
said day at the front door of the Court House
of tho County of Shiawass=e in the city of
COrIinna (that being the building in whicl
the Circuit Court for the County of Shiawas
see Is held, the undersigned will sell at pub
lie vendue to the highest bidder the premises
described in said mortgage TO satisfy said
amount now due and the interest thereon,
besides the costs and expenses, which said
lana ana premises are descrlbed.as follows.
to-wit; the west part of he east part of the
north east fractional quar- ter of section three
(3), town eight (8) north of range one ~ east,
except about ten acres sold Henry Mole OFF
the south end; said east part contains ninety
acres, and the west part above conveyed con-
talns nfty acres less the ten acres sold Henry
Mole, AL in the county of Shiawassee and State
of Michigan.
Dated. Dec. 10th, A. d. 1886;
5. r: SMITH, Mortgagee.
Attorney for Mortgagec.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-18

Of cur war occurred ON Sunday. So did the
| battle of Waterloo, and many other great
fights the world over.
Sunday, March o. about 9 o clock in the
morning, thersloping roof of tho tremendous
ram doomed up through the haze, and bore
down upon the Minnesota With her were
her attendants of the day before, the Con-
federate gunboats Patrick Henry, James
town, Raleigh, Beaufort and Teaser. To-
getber they carried eleven guns. In the
battle of the day before Commodore Bu-
chanaR had been severely wounded by
shot from the Congress, and in the ac-
ton of March o, the command devolved
upon his first officer, Lieut. Catesby Jones.
Thepowder division ON board the Congress was
in charge of Paymaster Mexican Buchanan,
brother of the commander of the Merrimac.
Only one thing had prevented the destruc-
ton OF the Minnesota in the action of Satur-
day, and that was the fact that she was
grounded in water too sboal for the Mer-
rimac to come near her. Her misfortune had
proved her salvation.
At the approach Of tho Merrimac and her
tenders Oh Sunday morning the drums of
the Minnesota beat to quarters. Away down
under water the crew of the little Monitor
got ready for fight
A strange scene in naval warfare then took
place. The gray bearded captain at Old
Point Comfort tells it as though Ii happened
yesterday. The Monitor was only one-fifth
the size of the Merrimac and OF very much
lighter draft.
The Merrimac steamed up past the Mime
sofa toward Fortress Monroe. Then she
turned and prepared to come straight ut the
Minnesota
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-18
Order of Publication.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, Seventh Judicial
Circuit.
Mary S. Coinwell VS.. Daniel II. Colnwell
Suit pending in the Circuit Court for the
County of Shiawassce, IN Chagecry, at Owosso,
on the 9TH day OF February A. d. 1887.
Upon Hing due proof by affidavit, that the
process for the appearance of the said Defen-
dant has been duly issued in this cause, and
that the same could not be served on said
defendant by reason of his absence from his
place of residence, and on motion of S. F.
Smith, Solicitor for said Complainant
II is ORDERED. that the said defendant
do appear and answer the bill of complaint
filed i'll said cause, on the 9th day of August
A. ID. 1887, else the said bill of complaint Shall
be taken as confessed,
AND FURTHER, that this order be pub
lished within twenty days from this date,
in THE TIMES, n newspaper printed in said
County of Shiawassee, and be published
therein once in each week for six weeks in
SUGGESTIONS; such publication, however, shall
not be necessary in case n copy of tins order
be served on the defendant personally at
least twenty days before the time herein
prescribed for his appearance.
Dated this 9Th day of February, AID. 1887
LUClUS T.. GOULD,
Circuit Court Commissioner
for Shiawassee County
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-18

carefully. Presi LIEUT.. WORDEN.
dent Lincoln visited him, and wept at
sight of the blinded hero who had done so
much. The gallant officer finally recovered
his sight. Nobody else in the Monitor was
hurt.
The Minnesota had been terribly shattered.
A shot from the Merrimac had exploded the
boiler of the tug Dragon, scalding several
men. Tho Minnesota, by throwing over
board some guns and other heavy articles,
and by attaching several more tugs to pull
and strain at her. got out Of her mud bed
Monday morning and went up under the
shelter of Fortress Monroe.
In the two days fighting the Federal
forces lost nearly 400 men and two valuable
ships; the Confederate forces lost thirteen
men. The Monitor was struck with shot
TWENTY-FIVE times, one Of which damaged the
pilot house somewhat The Merrimac's long
iron bow had been twisted when she ran into
the Cumberland. Two of her guns were
broken, her smoke and steam pipes and flag
staff were shot away, and as she steamed up
Norfolk bay it was seen that she sagged at
the stern.
"But what did tho Monitor and Merrimac
do nextp "They never came together again"
said the gray bearded captain. "They watched
around there good while, the Merrimac pro-
tecting Norfolk and the mouth Of the james,
the Monitor protecting the Chesapeake. Once
in while each one would come out and
scream around with her steam whistle awhile
mighty sassy, pretending to challenge. But
IL the other seemed likely to take it up that
one backed off in q hurry. One was afraid
and the other dassent."
Tho Merrimac was destroyed in May fol-
lowing by her own commander, Josiah Tat
nall, to prevent her from falling into Federal
hands. The Monitor foundered in a gale of
Cape Hatteras, the last day Of tho year 1862
and was lost. fi tf
The fight Of the Merrimac and Monitor has
taken its place as one of the great naval en-
gagements of the world
The employment Of vessels wholly armorod
with iron revolutionized sea warfare.